Politics

The knock-on effects from the government shutdown, now the longest in US history, continue apace, with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) cuts to air traffic at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports now officially in effect. The mandate, which kicked off on Friday with an initial 4 percent reduction, has already cancelled more than 1,700 […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

President Trump’s vehement refusal to make full SNAP benefits available to the nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the food aid program scored a temporary win at the Supreme Court, after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Friday temporarily allowed the federal government to continue withholding $4 billion in SNAP funding. The late-night order came […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.

The number one thing everyone at the Curtis Sliwa election night watch party could agree on was loving Curtis Sliwa. The number two thing was hating Andrew Cuomo. Aside from that, it was kind of a mixed bag. Last night, dozens of Sliwa supporters packed into the basement of Arte Cafe, an old-school Italian haunt […]

This post has been syndicated from Mother Jones, where it was published under this address.